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CVE-2025-55335

CVE-2025-55335 is a high severity Microsoft vulnerability with a CVSS score of 7.4. Microsoft has shipped the fix: deploy one of the 14 updates below from the Microsoft Update Catalog, and see where this CVE sits against the rest on the patch tracker.

Risk summary

High

7.4

CVSS v3

6.0%

EPSS, 30 days

High

Severity

Not in the CISA KEV catalog. EPSS exploit probability 6.0%. CVSS 7.4 (High).

This CVE is among the lower half of tracked Microsoft CVEs by EPSS exploit probability.

Senserva AI Opinion for CVE-2025-55335

This NTFS elevation-of-privilege flaw carries a Critical 9.9 CVSS with a 6 percent EPSS score on Windows 10 1809 and Server 2019. Because NTFS is the core file system, a privilege bug in it gives an attacker with local access a direct route to higher rights. The very high severity contrasts with the low modeled exploit probability. It is not in CISA KEV.

Do this: Apply the update to 1809 and Server 2019 systems and treat this as high priority on multi-user hosts despite the low EPSS.

AI-generated from public data, 2026-07-07. Verify against the vendor advisory before acting.

Senserva AI Opinion and rich prompt for CVE-2025-55335

Copy this prompt into Claude, ChatGPT, or Copilot. The facts are included, sourced from this page.

I am an IT admin assessing a vulnerability. Facts for CVE-2025-55335 (source: https://senserva.com/cve/CVE-2025-55335.html, data from MSRC, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS, NVD, refreshed twice a day (5 AM and 3 PM US Central)):
- CVE-2025-55335: High severity Microsoft vulnerability, CVSS 7.4
- EPSS 30-day exploitation probability: 6.0%
- Actively exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed by: KB5066586, KB5066780, KB5066782, KB5066791, KB5066793, KB5066835, KB5066836, KB5066837, KB5066872, KB5066873, KB5066874, KB5066875, KB5066876, KB5066877
Using only these facts plus your general knowledge, tell me: 1) How worried I should be and why, in two sentences. 2) How attackers typically use this class of flaw. 3) What to patch or mitigate first. 4) How to check whether my devices are exposed.
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Schedule normally

No exploitation observed: not in the CISA KEV catalog, EPSS 6%.

Fixed by KB5066586 and 13 more (by build, listed below). Download from the Microsoft Update Catalog, or deploy via Windows Update, Intune, or WSUS.

Do this now: Deploy with your normal update cycle. This page refreshes daily; the verdict changes the day the data does.

Official patch(es) for CVE-2025-55335

Moderate priority: schedule it in your normal patch cycle. In Intune or Defender, confirm whether the fixing updates KB5066586, KB5066780, KB5066782, KB5066791, KB5066793, KB5066835, KB5066836, KB5066837, KB5066872, KB5066873, KB5066874, KB5066875, KB5066876, KB5066877 are installed across the affected products. Senserva does this automatically across your tenant and flags every missing patch.

Apply the Microsoft security updates below to fix CVE-2025-55335. Each KB page carries the Microsoft Update Catalog download, Microsoft's known issues for the update, a copy-paste PowerShell check for whether it is installed, and the Senserva AI read.

KB5066586 KB5066780 KB5066782 KB5066791 KB5066793 KB5066835 KB5066836 KB5066837 KB5066872 KB5066873 KB5066874 KB5066875 KB5066876 KB5066877

Scope and sources

Affected products

Fixed by the same updates

CVE-2025-24990 CVE-2025-59230 CVE-2025-47827 CVE-2016-9535 CVE-2025-49708 CVE-2025-58719 CVE-2025-59280 CVE-2025-59284

Authoritative references

Official CVE record (cve.org)NVD detail Microsoft MSRC FIRST.org EPSS

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